Gordonia lasianthus 26/3 Restock 'Halley's Comet' was selected by

'Halley's Comet' was selected by the plantsman David Ellis and introduced by the former Magnolia Nursery of Chunchula

and enjoy a planting that asks for almost nothing once established

Handsome against brick or stone in a courtyard

and the plant settles into a low-maintenance

dense enough to read as a finished

Gordonia lasianthus 26/3 Restock 'Halley's Comet' was selected byRead the full plant profile, with design and field notes, on our blog. There are trees that feel as though they were written into the land's original scripture, and Gordonia lasianthus, the loblolly bay, is one of them: a native evergreen of the Southern coastal plain whose white flowers gleam like prayers unfolding in the heat of high summer. This noble member of the tea family, Theaceae, shares kinship with the celebrated camellias and with